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Dish

c.1930-50 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This unusually shaped vessel has a copper body with an applied gilded rim and foot-edges. It is decorated with geometrical shapes delineated by gilded copper yusen wires which divide the yellow enamel ground into grid-like sections. The central side panels have been cast or hammered into curves; the wires here are largely invisible under heavily applied alternating bands of blue, white and dark orange enamel, areas of which have been highlighted in gold. The interior ground is a combination of thickly applied purple and turquoise enamels, with gilded vertical wiring. The inside of the dark brown enamelled base has the gilt copper yusen mark of the Ando Company. The vessel has a strongly Art-Deco feel and reflects the craze for Egyptian-inspired design that followed the discovery of Tutanhkamen's tomb in 1922. An inscription on the associated box for this vessel describes it as being for the presentation of fruit and carries the signature and faded red seal [Ando] Jubei.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Box
  • Dish
Materials and techniques
Cloisonné enamel fruit with the mark of the Ando Company. The geometric design is formed using <i>yusen</i> (with wires) technique.
Brief description
Cloisonné enamel fruit dish decorated with geometric patterns,mark of the Ando Company, Nagoya, Japan, c. 1930-50.
Physical description
Cloisonné enamel fruit dish decorated with geometric patterns. The body of the vase is copper with an applied gilt rim and foot-edges.
Dimensions
  • Height: 13cm
  • Width: 44cm
Content description
Egyptian inspired
Marks and inscriptions
(Mark of the Ando Company)
Credit line
Given by Edwin Davies
Summary
This unusually shaped vessel has a copper body with an applied gilded rim and foot-edges. It is decorated with geometrical shapes delineated by gilded copper yusen wires which divide the yellow enamel ground into grid-like sections. The central side panels have been cast or hammered into curves; the wires here are largely invisible under heavily applied alternating bands of blue, white and dark orange enamel, areas of which have been highlighted in gold. The interior ground is a combination of thickly applied purple and turquoise enamels, with gilded vertical wiring. The inside of the dark brown enamelled base has the gilt copper yusen mark of the Ando Company. The vessel has a strongly Art-Deco feel and reflects the craze for Egyptian-inspired design that followed the discovery of Tutanhkamen's tomb in 1922. An inscription on the associated box for this vessel describes it as being for the presentation of fruit and carries the signature and faded red seal [Ando] Jubei.
Bibliographic reference
Japanese Cloisonne Irvine, Gregory. Japanese Cloisonné. (London:V&A Publications, 2006), p.81.
Other number
ED 262 - Edwin Davies collection number
Collection
Accession number
FE.39:1, 2-2011

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Record createdFebruary 16, 2011
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